The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-28
FLORIDA.

Tampa was lighted with electricity
Monday night for the first time.
Lake City expended s., 524 last year
equally divided between police salaries and
public improvements. The outstanding in
debtedness is now not more than S700
A new mail agent has been appointed on
the Palatka and Drayton Island route in
place of Capt. Harry Gable, who has acted
in that capacity since the steamer Georgia
has been carrying the mails
Mrs. T. d. G. PrentisS, nee Butts, the
lady on whose head the sun of more than
eighty warm summers has shone, and who
married 22-year-old Prentiss at Ocala year
or more ago, is now suing for divorce from
her young husband.
The crew of the Sanchez schooner har-
poOned 300-pOund turtle just outside the
st. Augustine bar on Thursday Nearly a
bushel of yellow eggs an inch or more in
diameter were taken from this monster in
the operation of dressing
postal note for lc., payable to the New
York Gazette, was drawn by Postmaster
Sheldon at Gainesville Saturday evening.
The party for whom the postal note was
drawn registered the letter containing it,
making the cost Of sending 1c. amount to
l5c
John Wallace (colored), ex-State Senator
from Leon county has nearly ready for the
press an important book entitled ''The In
side Workings of the Reconstruction of Civil
Government in Florida After the Close of
the War" 1t will be a valuable contribu-
tion to the political history of the State.
John Blake, while cleaning away the
debris from the st. Augustine Hotel Wed
nesday morning found very valuable soil
taire diamond ring There is much valu-
able property under the ruins, some of
which will be recovered and undoubtedly
identified and returned to the rightful
owners.
There isnow on exhibition at E. L. Evans
store at Fort Myers cabbage weighing
twenty six pounds. raised by w NJ. Hendry
at his country place three miles east of town
Two others were taken from the same patch
which weighed nineteen pounds each and
the cabbages have received no extra cultiva-
| ton whatever.
1t has appeared little strange to many
| people that a eoroners inquest was not held
| on the remains of Bridget Barry, who was
| burned in the st Augustine Hotel. Had
| this been attended to, as is customary, some
| light might have been thrown on the origin
| of the fire from testimony of inmates of the
| house, nearly all of whom have now left the
| city.
| The trial of William Cooper, in for the
| shooting in cold blood of Thompson, Balm
and Hunter, all colored, at Pine Key, Sept
Is last, and from the effects of which both
Balm and Hunter died, was commenced on
the Saturday preceding and finished last
| Monday night, when a verdict of murder in
the first degree was found. The case will
be appealed to the State Supreme Court.
AT a recent meeting of the Duval County
| Board of Health an invitation was extended
the members to visit Havana in a body by
| the Plant Investment Company, making the
trip ON the new steamship Olivette on her
first voyage between Tampa and Cuba. The
| invitation was accepted by the board and it
| is expected that a ma jority of the members
will avail themselves of the opportunity to
| visit Havana. Those who go will leave
Jacksonville to-day and be absent about a
| week or ten days.
At Palatka Monday morning, while the
heavy rain was falling, a stranger created
| a great deal of excitement on Lemon and
Water streets by walking about stripped to
| the waist. The man went into the Chinese
| restaurant and ordered meal and. while
waiting for it the mean whisky he had been
drinking began to ferment. When the pro-
| prietor of the house attempted to put him
| out he showed fight and scattered things
around generally, emerging from the melee
in the condition above described.
The county safe and the private safe of
| Hon. b. F. Oliveros, at st. Augustine, were
| opened after having been exposed to the
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combinations worked correctly, and the in
terror of the safes with their contents were
| positively uninjured. Capt. Vail, of the
st. Augustine Hotel, had two safes in the
| office. The larger one was opened and found
comparatively uninjured, although some of
| the papers We're slightly scorched The
small safe was utterly ruined and its con
tents destroyed. This safe was an old make
The little village of Citra, in Marion
county, is fortunate in having a live inn
provement society among its public institu-
tions. The society is doing good work too.
as was shown by the report of its officers
read at the grand picnic given there one
day last week. The society has purchased
four acres of desirably located land and
| converted it into "a public park, and the
work Of the individual members has done
| much to beautify the place and make it at
| tractive But the society is not satisfied
with this, and propose to keep up the good
work, fence the park, erect suitable build
ings, plant trees and shrubbery, and do such
other things as will make il one of the most
beautiful spots in Florida.
On Saturday night last the steamer George
M. Bird arrived at Palatka from jackson
vile TO get a load of the cedar logs now
lying on the Larkin House dock, intending
to load on Sunday. On being notified by
the police officers that the Sunday ordinance
was in full operation the officers of the
| steamer called on the Mayor for permission
! to proceed with the work For the reason
that the ordinance forbade such n proceed
ing and the additional fact that the work
was proposed to be carried on very near n
church the Mayor refused TO grant the per-
| mission asked for, and the officers and crew
were compelled to take rest until Monday
morning, when the logs were put on board
and the steamer took her departure.
Doctor Douglass, the weil-known physi-
clan, who attended Gen Grant in his last
illness, is in Jacksonville. The doctor is
! full Of interesting "reminiscences Of the Grant
family. and can spin yarn after yarn about
! the dead General. "Of al the Grants, - said
| the doctor as he cOmfo' rlbly puifel cigar.
"The General was the only one that ever
amounted or viii amount 10 anything He
wns undoubtedly grent and noble fellow.
but the bDyB are Of no earthly account. As
for Fred, he never Will amount b. ANYTHING
Do yOu know that Mrs. Grant thinks 10
day more ri her own family. the Donfs.
than hhe does 81 her husbands She al
wHys considered she came Of better stock
hnd never lot nu opportunity tO SAY ~.
But then sin waa devoted % bier husband
and uuiad him during Bot, last ,lcknea with
pailrnen nld Kindness Of n uiulsurup
angel. Hud ! roally ililnh np woman could
have dDn0 moro fpf hrf husband
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